Frustrated family members of Texas’ first posthumous exoneration held out hope that the state could pardon a Fort Worth man discovered innocent almost 10 years after he died in prison.A proposed constitutional amendment giving the governor authority to pardon Timothy Brian Cole became one of the myriad casualties of a partisan fight over voter identification legislation. Texas law does not specify whether a person needs to be alive to receive a pardon. The governor’s office cites a brief, 44-year-old attorney general’s opinion that clearly states he may only pardon the living. http://lubbockonline.com/stories/060609/loc_447973286.shtml

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – A Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agent has been arrested and charged with two counts of sexual assault, and one count of official oppression.

On Tuesday, 40-year-old Agent Joe Chavez, Jr. was arrested and taken to the Bastrop County Jail and is currently being held on a $225,000 bond for an alleged sexual assault during a minor sting operation in May. The criminal investigation is being conducted by the Bastrop County Sheriff’s office and the Texas Rangers.

"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." Aquinas